This is the set of facts that the Iowa Supreme Court did not see as constituting sex discrimination: During the last six months or so of Nelson’s employment, Dr. Knight and Nelson started texting each other on both work and personal matters outside the workplace....
Author: Scott Lemieux
Charlotte Allen would like to inform her critics that her logical and factual errors are central to her point. The only interesting thing about Allen's response is that apparently Erik's.
Shorter Pierce, Serwer, and MacGillis: Bring me the head of Wayne LaPierre.* *A note for our illiterate readers: I am not suggesting that any of these gentlemen are literally advocating.
This collection of quotes from Robert Bork, the towering intellect whose defeated Supreme Court nomination was the greatest injustice in known human history, is another sad manifestation in the politics of personal destruction. If there's a dirtier form of politics that quoting Bork's own words,...
Even though I'd generally prefer not to appoint another Republican to Defense ceteris paribus, I'm now entirely convinced that he's the best of the viable choices. By the way, did.
My bottom line: "It says something about Bork's constitutional vision that accurately restating his public views has become synonymous with the dirtiest of dirty tricks." Along similar lines, Jeffrey Toobin.
Ever the optimist, I figured the McArdle was simply unbeatable in the "jaw-dropping winger reactions to Newtown" sweepstakes. But never end a competition until the NRO has spoken! Charlotte Allen has now lapped the field. ("Weak, passive women administrators would never resist a shooter. Except...
When it comes to better gun control legislation, the Second Amendment is really a minor factor. The Second Amendment can be plausibly interpreted to permit a wide range of control.
R.I.P. The Bork nomination, of course, marked a watershed moment in American politics -- American conservatives whining that there's no dirtier pool than accurately describing their ideas and their consequences,.
Rick "Further Evidence That You Should Avoid Governors Named 'Rick' Like the Plague" Snyder has taken Michigan well down the road to being Texas north, but in the wake of Newtown is apparently declining to proceed any further for the time being. Meanwhile, enjoy this...
I'm sure I'll be returning to these essays once the movie makes it to the provinces, but until then I will note that the debate has inspired some brilliant writing.
Another deal is being floated. Let's think this through (with the caveat that the details could change): The chained-CPI Social Security cuts are terrible, terrible public policy. Now, yes, to.